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by sdotsen 1825 days ago
Reinventing the wheel. So many hours wasted on creating something that already existed in the form of PHP libraries or Python libraries that are written by much smarter folks. I tell my guys now, tools such as Ansible exist, don't try to write a whole Bash program to mimic what Ansible can do.
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Counter to that though, re-inventing the wheel is a great learning exercise.
As a learning exercise yes, no need to "learn" with new production code :)